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The Trump Administration fired approximately 300 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees over the weekend as DOGE works to eliminate DEI and wasteful spending. Last week it was reported that the Trump Admin was gearing up to fire probationary workers. Hundreds of FAA employees received an email informing them of their termination. David Spero, the national president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS), AFL-CIO, blasted the Trump Administration for firing FAA employees.

Vital tracking technology inside an Army Black Hawk helicopter was turned off for 'no compelling reason' when it collided with a passenger plane over Washington DC last week. The Black Hawk was performing a routine training mission in an effort to renew 28-year-old Captain Rebecca M. Lobach's annual certification when it crashed into American Airlines Flight 5342 as it was making its final descent at Reagan National Airport just before 9pm on January 29. When the chopper went down, the Black Hawk's Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast was disabled - a system which shares an aircraft's position, altitude and speed, Sen. Ted...

After the Reagan Airport disaster, will we finally reform the FAA?We still don’t know how many mistakes led to the collision of a helicopter with an American Airlines passenger jet making its descent at Reagan National Airport last week. But one thing has been clear for decades: America’s air-traffic control system, once the world’s most advanced, has become an international disgrace.Long before the Obama and Biden administrations’ quest to diversify staff in control towers, the system was already one of the worst in the developed world. The recent rash of near-collisions is the result of chronic mismanagement that has left...

Ah. The helicopter pilot was a social aid to Biden and his degenerate White House, helping to “plan” his events. No wonder why they wanted to hide her identity So yes, DEI was very much involved in this crash. Trump was right.

Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer Rebecca Lobach, the Biden aid who was flying the helicopter that flew into the American Airlines passenger jet in DC this week, attended PRIDE events. The statement her family released about her said she was a “partner”.

On Saturday the US Army released the name of the pilot of the US Army Blackhawk helicopter that flew into a passenger jet landing at Reagan National Airport. The crash was on Wednesday. The third pilot’s name, Rebecca Lobach, was finally released on Saturday, three days later. All 64 passengers in the jet were killed. The three pilots in the Blackhawk helicopter also died in the explosive crash. Kristinn Taylor at The Gateway Pundit reported: After withholding at the request of the family the name of the female pilot killed in the mid-air collision Wednesday night between an Army Black...

The Black Hawk military helicopter involved in Wednesday’s midair collision in Washingon, DC, was training to evacuate government officials in the case of a catastrophic event when it crashed into an American Airlines regional passenger plane – and was involved with a catastrophe of its own. Jonathan Koziol, chief of staff for the Army’s aviation directorate, told reporters on Thursday the pilots were training for a scenario when “something really bad happens in this area, and we need to move our senior leaders.” That evacuation would be part of what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described as “a continuity of government...

The US Army helicopter involved in Wednesday's midair collision with American Airlines flight 5342 had been practicing for the event of an attack on the capital. Officials have confirmed that the three soldiers, who all perished, had been rehearsing a plan that involves the evacuation of the White House when their Black Hawk collided with the passenger jet just before 9pm on Wednesday night. Defense sources confirmed the nature of the training exercise to CBS News, after internet sleuths had floated a theory online that it was doing exactly what sources say. Theorists had flooded social media with claims that...

The military Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into a passenger plane near Reagan National Airport Wednesday appears to have been flying above the permitted altitude, publicly available flight data analyzed by CBS News shows.This data point is one of several key mysteries investigators are exploring as they seek to explain what caused the nation's worst air disaster in more than a decade, aviation experts said."That's the $64 million question that needs to be answered," said Greg Feith, a former senior air safety investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, in an interview with CBS News. The permitted flight ceiling on...

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The co-pilot of the Black Hawk that crashed into a passenger plane in DC , killing everyone on board in both aircraft, was a woman who was being evaluated. The female pilot has not been named but Fox News reported it was a woman with 500 hours of flying of experience, which is considered a 'normal' amount...Army chopper may have been flying higher than approved The Black Hawk involved in the crash appears to have been flying too high and outside its approved flight path during the tragedy on Wednesday, The New York Times reported. The chopper was reportedly supposed...

Drake Slayer @drakeslayer100 🤯🤯🤯 Was this a suicide mission? That’s what the flight radar data LITERALLY shows, Black Hawk helicopter almost colliding with 3 other planes before the final impact on American Airlines flight 👇....😟😟😟

An air traffic controller was reportedly allowed to leave their post early just before American Airlines Flight 5342 collided in midair with a military helicopter over Washington DC. Insiders and a preliminary internal FAA report have started to reveal catastrophic failures leading up to the aviation disaster ... That night, an air traffic controller was left to handle both helicopter traffic and manage planes - which should have been a divided duty ... Those tasks are usually handled between two people from 10am until 9:30pm ... A supervisor reportedly decided to combine those duties before the scheduled cutoff time however,...

Bodies of 41 people killed when an American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter collided in the air over Washington, DC, Wednesday night have been recovered from the wreckage, officials said Friday. The Black Hawk chopper hit the airplane, coming from Wichita, Kansas, as it approached Runaway 33 at Reagan National airport around 9 p.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration. ...SNIP: 59 minutes ago Supervisor let air traffic controller leave shift early before crash: report By Patrick Reilly A supervisor at the Reagan National Airport tower reportedly let an air traffic controller leave early from his shift shortly before...